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2008 year end Vox Pop - interesting times

December 8, 2008 – 9:46 am

May you live in interesting times.  Whether or not this is an actual ancient Chinese blessing/curse - 2008 was certainly full of interesting moments in time.

Feel like sharing some of yours?

Log into edna Groups, Pop over to the E-learning Insights Vox Pop Group, newly re-located to http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2090 and use the Wimba Voice Board to answer the questions:

Sharing the journeyWhat were some of the powerful lessons you’ve learned this year regarding what technology can do to support both teachers and learners?

AND/OR

Looking forward to 2009, what do you hope to learn and achieve?

Please introduce yourself by name, location and role so your story has context.

You may need to run through the Wimba set up Wizard first — http://educationau-classroom.netspot.com.au/

No luck? No headset or audio card? No problem! Send an email to kjohnson@educationau.edu.au and share your story via text.  I’ll read it out for you.

All submissions will be made available for mashing up after the podcast has aired under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial license.  If you are not willing for this to happen, please write that in the text box that is part of the Wimba Voice Board recorder.

Also, I’m happy to link to your blog from E-learning Insights podcast episode page on the edna site provided it meets edna’s editorial guidelines.

And on a personal note, thanks to all of you who have shared my journey this year and helped me reach new heights and make new discoveries.

By KerryJ | Posted in Educationau, Professional development, e-learning, eduauweb2 | Comments (0)

Digital Literacies: Episode 21 (E-learning Insights)

October 19, 2008 – 8:37 pm

Is the wealth of information and tools available electronically expanding our ideas on what literacies are necessary for lifelong learning? Or is the term literacy becoming over-used?
edna Education Officer Belinda Spry has been leading workshop sessions around Australia on this topic and this episode is a recording of an online discussion with a passionate group of educators exploring these issues. Length: 48.5 minutes.

By KerryJ | Posted in Technologies, Professional development, e-learning, resources, ednaworkshops2008, ednaworkshops08 | Comments (0)

Blogging- it’s a conversation: Episode 20 (E-learning Insights)

September 8, 2008 – 5:07 pm

Sue Waters, editor of the Edublogger and high profile blogger in her own right leads this discussion on effective blogging. 

This hour’s worth of audio (27.8 MB) from an online discussion held in Live Classroom, includes tips for more effective blogging, examples of how to stimulate comments and conversations and how to overcome some of the barriers that may be holding you back.

Although primarily aimed at beginning bloggers, there’s plenty in here for more experienced bloggerati.

me.edu.au has recently added a blogging tool — so if you’re a member of me and haven’t yet set up a blog of your own, you’re just a click or two away from getting started!

If you’d prefer to see Sue’s slides while listening to the discussion, you may want to load up the Live Classroom Archive instead.

You will need to install some Java updates and run the set up wizard for Live Classroom before being able to view it.

For more information on how to set up Live Classroom, visit the edna online workshop Sandpit -  http://sandpit.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=126

 

Blogging with Sue

 

By KerryJ | Posted in Educationau, Professional development, eduauweb2, blogging | Comments (1)

Managing your online footprint: Episode 19 (E-learning Insights)

August 1, 2008 – 10:41 am

With the rapid pace of change in technology and teaching, no ONE person can know it all. Thanks to networks of friends and colleagues, no one person has to know it all.

Using the internet to establish your online presence or digital footprint and then building a network is the subject of this keynote address by social networks strategist and online communities consultant Laurel Papworth.

This keynote was delivered at Macquarie University on Tuesday, 29 July as part of edna’s 2008 workshop tour.

Introduction by KerryJ.

By KerryJ | Posted in Educationau, Professional development, edna2tour | Comments (2)

ednaworkshops08 2 of 4- Learning without borders: Episode 18 (E-learning Insights)

July 16, 2008 – 9:48 am

In this second of four series from edna’s 2008 online workshops, Cecily Wright, an Education Officer with edna’s Professional Learning and Online Communities team, leads a discussion on global education.

In her session “Learning Without Borders”, Cecily challenges educators from all sectors to move beyond the wall of their institutions and immediate community to engage in the global education community.

Discover what resources can help you to enhance learning across subject areas and find out what the trends are in your sector.

By KerryJ | Posted in Uncategorized, Higher Education, VTE, Schools, resources, ednaworkshops2008, ednaworkshops08 | Comments (2)

ednaworkshops08 1 of 4- me.edu.au: Episode 17 (E-learning Insights)

June 26, 2008 – 3:46 pm

In this first of four series of episodes from edna’s online workshops, Kerrie Smith, Assistant Manager of edna’s Professional Learning and Online Communities introduces participants to the new me.edu.au web service.  me.edu.au is a an online professional networking service for educators and is the keystone to edna’s other services such as the online communities of practice available via edna Groups, the email discusssion Lists, and the tools available to developers and educators in the toolkit area of the edna web site.

For a list of resources, visit the Episode 17 page of the E-learning Insights section of the edna web site.

By KerryJ | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Vox Pop 2: Social media – balancing the risks and opportunities

April 4, 2008 – 4:04 pm

Calling teachers, principals and administrators – it’s time your voice was heard (literally) on the next E-learning Insights Vox Pop.

Studies from Australia and the United States show that children as young as 8 years old are getting online to explore virtual worlds, set up online identities, chat in chat rooms and share photos and videos.

With more sophisticated mobile phones that are capable of web browsing and recording media, students have ways of accessing online sites out of the control of parents and institutions.

There are also risks to be dealt with like online scams, hackers and stranger danger. Some problems, like cyberbullying, come from the kids themselves.

Educators - including practitioners, principals and administrators - and parents are faced with trying to find a balance between protecting kids and allowing them to use the communications tools they will need to master for a new century.

Does your institution or jurisdiction incorporate open online tools that could result in social interaction such as photo sharing, video sharing, blogs,wikis, virtual worlds into your classroom teaching activities? What about mobile phones?

If so and you are a practitioner, let us know what you use, how you use it, what age group and how you manage safety issues. What learning outcomes result from the use of these tools?

If you are a principal or administrator, do you have a formal policy in place regarding the use of online tools by teachers and students? Does your institution or jurisdiction have an internet safety education policy in place? What about one extending to mobile phones?

Leave your Vox Pop by visiting the edna Sandpit – http://sandpit.edna.edu.au , logging in and using your headset and mic to record audio on the Wimba voice board. If you aren’t registered with edna – it only takes a few minutes and it is free.

No headset? No problem! Send an email to podcasts@edna.edu.au with the subject line “Vox Pop 2: Social Media”.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, 25 April 2008.

By KerryJ | Posted in Uncategorized, Educationau, Technologies, Schools, e-learning, blogging | Comments (0)

Blogging Vox Pops: Episode 16 (E-learning Insights)

February 4, 2008 – 12:08 pm

Educators share their thoughts on blogging - some via emails read out by the host, others by audio messages left on a voice board set up for the podcast in this interactive edition of edna’s E-learning Insights.

By KerryJ | Posted in Technologies, Professional development, eduauweb2, blogging | Comments (0)

Al Upton’s miniLegends: Episode 15 (E-learning Insights)

December 18, 2007 – 4:42 pm

Al Upton’s hands-on experience using blogging as an educational tool covers learning outcomes, frustration with content filters and extending the learning beyond school walls.  Discover how even less tech-savvy teachers can harness the power of blogging and help students stay safe online.

By KerryJ | Posted in Technologies, Schools, e-learning | Comments (0)

edna’s 10th birthday webcast: Episode 14 (E-learning Insights)

November 28, 2007 – 4:43 pm

On November 27 2007 the edna initiative celebrated its tenth anniversary.  A live event was held for staff and some guests at education.au’s Dulwich, South Australia offices that was webcast simultaneously into Second Life and into an instance of Live Classroom set up in edna’s Sandpit Groups.  If you were unable to attend any of these events, this episode is for you.

By KerryJ | Posted in e-learning, eduauweb2, edna10 | Comments (1)